How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
TOM PETERSOrganizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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What gets measured gets done.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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